September 9 — October 8, 12–8 p.m.
New Holland Island and Nikolay Evdokimov Gallery present The Pier, an installation by Dmitry Sirotkin.
The monotonous beating of the waves against the empty pier. A steamboat’s whistle cuts through the harbor noise and freezes in the air. The pounding in one’s temples becomes unbearable. A man bursts into the indifference of the empty pier. Convulsively gasping for air, he stares in a daze after the departing ship... A hapless traveler or a man who has decided to run away and start all over again? He’s late, he’s confused. What is better: to be on time or to be late, to run or to stay? Everyone decides for himself.
The installation is open from 12:00 to 20:00. Admission is free.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dmitry Sirotkin (1969, Leningrad) is a photographer, artist and book designer. He started his professional career in 1994. He works with various art forms, combining classical photography with book design, working with text and collage, painting.
In 2013 he becomes a photographer for the State Hermitage Museum and focuses on museum photography. In 2019, his solo exhibition Winterreise, dedicated to St. Petersburg, opens in the General Staff building. In his latest projects he turns to the genre of installation.
The Pier is the third in a series of projects by the artist since the beginning of 2022, dedicated to the theme of experiencing the events of recent times. Here he turns to the images of familiar utilitarian objects. Throughout the twentieth century, they acquired additional connotations, which until recently were only remembered in connection with certain periods of the recent past. Reflecting on contemporary realities, the artist reveals these meanings, and the installation turns from a supposed invitation to travel into a proposition to reflect on the eternal philosophical dilemma of fatal predetermination and the possibility of freedom of choice.
Dmitry Sirotkin’s works are in the collections of the Multimedia Art Museum, the State Hermitage Museum, the Bavarian State Library, the Center for Contemporary Art Siyaniye (Apatity), the Saxon State Library and the Museum Klingspohr (Museum of Book and Font Art) in Offenbach am Main and private collections.
Nikolay Evdokimov Gallery of Contemporary Art was founded by curator Nikolay Evdokimov in 2020 in St. Petersburg. The gallery is located in the city center, works in the format of a home salon and pop-up exhibitions at third-party venues. The specificity of the gallery gives an opportunity to get acquainted with the works of artists before the audience of large exhibition venues, to see how works of contemporary art can be integrated into the space of a private interior.
